RuneScape:Administrative requests

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If you haven't read it yet, I'd like to point out w:c:community:User blog:Rappy 4187/Technical Update: June 28, 2017. I don't see any IPv6 addresses in Recent Changes as of this writing, but I'm sure it will happen eventually. Despite Wikia saying they work
"just like" IPv4 addresses, blocking them kind of does not work like IPv4 addresses. Every IPv6 block is going to have to be a range block, because the idea behind IPv6 is that every household will be a range of addresses, so that everything in your house can have its own, unique IP address (your computer, your spouse's computer, your children's computers, the TV, the thermostat, the microwave, the dog's flea collar, etc.). --Saftzie(talk) 21:41, June 28, 2017 (UTC)

Yeah it's a pretty frustrating thing to have to deal with. We have actually had a few IPv6 addresses editing over the last 24 hours, such as this account and this one too (the latter of which was likely a charm vandal). I see that it is already causing problems 21:50, June 28, 2017 (UTC)

The reference V makes to a minstrel and his ninja sidekick causing people to fall in love, then throwing a concert, is probably a reference to a semi-famous band called Ninja Sex Party. The word sex is preventing me from adding this to his page. Would appreciate it if an exemption was made in this case. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Snowskeeper (talk) on 05:48, July 3, 2017 (UTC).

I've added it to the trivia section for you - thanks for catching that reference. Please note that for the most part, images consisting purely of text are unnecessary and should be transcribed instead, either onto the article or on a transcript page. --Iiii I I I 06:15, July 3, 2017 (UTC)

I'd like to request bot help to add a series of interwiki links from this wiki to the Portuguese one, since i think it would be faster to do it like that. A list of the first batch of pages that require this can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a0IZ_tBNzjCjP434eiuZFAOD6bGlwcLx5MBWgP7jiJA/edit?usp=sharing
I'd need another batch of about the same size in the future, but before i add the rest of the pages to this list i need to improve them over at our place.
Also, we only need edits here, since all pages on the PT-BR wiki already have interwiki links.
Thanks!

That's only 57 edits to be made as it stands. If the list is likely to increase exponentially then I'd suggest botting it, but for those, I'm not sure it's really worth it unless AWB has a function for it. cqm11:37, 16 Sep 2017 (UTC)

I've switchedwidget-id to screen-name. I have not changed the other parameters – I customized the widget to match the wiki, and removing them would make the widget default to Twitter's light theme. --Iiii I I I 17:33, September 28, 2017 (UTC)

I'd like to formally request that the Wizard hat (black) article be moved to Black wizard hat (a pre-existing redirect page prevents this) and that image files for Black wizard hat, robe top and robe skirt be moved to match the article names. Jampolo 00:26, October 10, 2017 (UTC)

It seems although "Minimap glitches" was redirected to Minimap#Glitches(source) and a lot of info and a file was not moved onto the new page. [[File:Minimap glitch druidic ritual.png]] This file was since deleted and I'm unsure if it is re-obtainable. Is it possible to undelete this or would someone have it in a database dump? --Internetboxwikitalk 06:05, December 6, 2017 (UTC)

The text of the File: page can be restored, because "deleted" pages are actually just archived. However, deleted images are gone forever. Also, images are not kept in the database, so no database dump would ever contain them. It's likely Wikia has backups of image repositories, but I wouldn't count on restoring from there for anything other than catastrophic failure. For images, gone is gone. --Saftzie(talk) 19:31, December 6, 2017 (UTC)

Actually, images are stored for a while before they are actually deleted. I just checked it and it is still available. I went ahead and restored it since you went ahead and placed it on the page. 19:40, December 6, 2017 (UTC)